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Berlin 10 Open Access Conference, Stellenbosch, South Africa<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;color:maroon">CONFERENCE THEME ANNOUNCEMENT<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="color:windowtext">As announced previously, the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference will be held at Stellenbosch, South Africa.  The Conference will be held at the Wallenberg
 Research Centre, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) from 7-8 November 2012.  Pre-conference workshops will be held on 6 November.  The theme of the Conference is
</span><b><i><span style="color:maroon">Network scholarship in a networked world: participation in Open Access</span></i></b><span style="color:windowtext">.  Given that the Conference will be held in Africa, the sub-themes to be explored are concomitant with
 the development and transformative agenda of Open <br>
Access.  The sub-themes are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:windowtext">Open Access and other forms of openness<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:windowtext">Benefits of Open Access for scholarship and wider society<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><a href="http://www.sun.ac.za/" target="_blank">Stellenbosch University</a><span style="color:windowtext">, in partnership with the
</span><a href="http://www.mpg.de/en" target="_blank">Max Planck Society</a><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="color:windowtext">and other hosts, has the distinct pleasure of inviting policy and ‘funding’ communities, scientists and researchers and librarians to the</span><span style="color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="http://oa.mpg.de/lang/en-uk/berlin-prozess/berlin-konferenzen/" target="_blank">Berlin 10 Open Access Conference</a><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:windowtext">Please take note of the following<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></b><b><span style="color:maroon">to Actio</span></b><b><span style="color:#953735">n</span></b><b><span style="color:maroon">!</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">We would like to call on all institutions supporting opening access to research information to also sign the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities.
 Please visit <a href="http://www.berlin10.org/call-to-action.html">http://www.berlin10.org/call-to-action.html</a> for more information.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b><span style="color:maroon">Registration</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Please stay in touch and follow all activities around the Berlin 10 Open Access Conference by joining us on
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/Berlin10SouthAfrica">facebook</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Berlin10SA/">
twitter</a>, or through subscribing to our <a href="http://lists.lib.sun.ac.za/mailman/listinfo/berlin10">
newsletter</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="line-height:21.6pt"><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Other relevant information will become available in forthcoming announcements which will also be available on the conference website (</span></strong><a href="http://www.berlin10.org"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">www.berlin10.org</span></b></a><strong><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">).</span></strong><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p> <b>Ina Smith</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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